Sentence examples for Defunct from inspiring English sources

But if there is a hub, a clearing house for the complex, cynical and murderous business of trafficking migrants, then it is a place where the state is defunct and society disenchanted, where the border guards are biddable for $400, where the beaches are broad and where the sea lapping the shore stretches north to another far more promising coastline.

Thousands turned up including many families of the IRA's notoriously militant East Tyrone Brigade, some of whom were there to show they had switched allegiance away from Sinn Fein to the anti-ceasefire republican groups like the now defunct Real IRA, which has morphed into the new IRA.

The embattled third baseman was suspended in early August by MLB for 211 games, for his connection to a defunct wellness clinic, Biogenesis of America, which is suspected of providing performance-enhancing drugs to athletes.

The now defunct EIC was formed in 1993 by a number of trade associations "who saw the need to explore common sense solutions to widely-debated environmental problems".

The club was given a raw deal, as it inherited the defunct Detroit franchise's 2-17 record to begin the year and was left out of the NBL's merger with the rival Basketball Association of America — now known as the NBA.

It is the second unsuccessful attempt by bikies to defeat criminal organisation laws in Queensland in the high court, after a challenge by the now defunct Finks Surfers Paradise chapter to previous laws last year.

The pair are due at the Old Bailey in London on Wednesday with five other journalists from the now-defunct tabloid the News of the World, as well as private investigator Glenn Mulcaire.

In the days before his death, Scotland Yard and the now-defunct Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca) had intelligence that he was about to receive a gun from another man, Kevin Hutchinson-Foster, and launched an armed surveillance operation.

A founder of the now-defunct Guadalajara cartel, Quintero spent 28 years in jail for the 1985 murder of DEA agent Kiki Camarena, but was unexpectedly released in 2013 – to the disgust of the US government – and promptly disappeared.

The FA has been warned by Fifa over fans' behaviour, some (disputed) racist chants and the old insistence on banging on about the now-defunct Irish Republican Army.

The last time a similar article was published, in 2010 by the now-defunct Rolling Stone, it listed the name of my friend and colleague David Kato.